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“It’s no use pleading, girly,” he said. “The boy is worth too much to let go. I can get a good price for him from the rich Titan. More than I’d ever get for you. You’re more of what you might call a long-term investment. I’m going to whore you out to every guy that comes calling. After I get my taste, of course.”
He ran a disgusting finger along my jawline.
I turned away from him.
“There’s no use in fighting, girly,” he said. “But go ahead and try. It makes it more interesting for me.”
I wished I could have spoken to Cleb, could have told him to turn back and run. I would run into Asshole and kick him in the shins. I could distract him while he made his break for it.
But it was wishful thinking. I couldn’t speak to Cleb, and even if I could, Asshole would lay me out with a single blow to the head. Cleb was small and a full-grown Titan would catch up to him easily.
And maybe even hurt him.
Above all, I couldn’t let that happen.
Cleb might have to live roughly for a few days but Asshole would get his ransom. Then Cleb would be free.
Then it would be just me and the disgusting Asshole. I’d escaped from him once. I could do it again.
I dropped another figurine and covered the noise it made with a timed footstep.
“Maybe you can help me out with something,” Asshole said.
Help yourself, asshole.
“I can’t decide if you’re the best or worst thing that’s happened to me,” he said. “Get this. It’ll really make you laugh. You were never meant to belong to me. I was never meant to be your master. Your real master was a successful lawyer. But you see, he had this little flaw. He liked to gamble. He can’t help himself. He sees an opportunity to earn easy money, and he takes it.
“So, one day he comes to me, unable to pay one of his bad bets, and instead has to give me something else. A gift, you might call it. You. He brought you along in your shiny new pod. I didn’t want you. I didn’t have a need for you. But he made me see the upside. You could cook and clean for me, be my comfort woman. I never found you attractive. Far too skinny. But one day, when the bar threw me out early, I came home and realized maybe, in the right light, you weren’t as hideous as I thought.”
That was the day I escaped. When I bashed him over the head and chained him to his wall. But I was still reeling from his earlier revelation.
I was payment for a bad debt? That sure made a girl feel special.
I wondered how I’d ended up in his possession. He was not rich and I didn’t think buying an abducted woman could be cheap. He had no money, so it was always a bit of a mystery.
Sometimes mysteries are better than answers.
I put it out of my mind. It didn’t matter anymore. I no longer belonged to him and I never would. My heart, soul, and body belonged to Traes, and always would.
I dropped another figurine. I needed to be careful and ensure to space them out. I had no idea where we were heading. Asshole hadn’t indicated how far we would be going. Maybe he had a shuttlecraft stored away somewhere. I doubt he’d brought his old truck. I didn’t think it was capable of interstellar travel.
I took a step forward and bumped into Asshole.
He glared down at me with his twisted pockmarked sneer.
“I think you dropped something,” he said.
My insides turned to water and my legs felt weak.
He viciously spun me around, yanked my clenched fists open, and dug the spy figurines out of my grip. He waved them under my nose.
“What’s this, huh?” he said. “A few toys to play with between your whore clients later?”
He hurled the figurines across the space, and with one smooth motion, backhanded me across the face, knocking me to the ground.
Cleb, incensed with rage, barreled into Asshole, head-butting him in the groin and kicking him in the shin.
No!
